Title | Date added | Template | Date recorded | Category | Summary |
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Issue 1 Reconciliation Pathways | Mar 4, 2019 | Institutional reform | Mar 21, 2018 |
| This paper reviews Zimbabwe’s healing reconciliation discourse and how the process could be prosecuted. This review is also a precursor to Heal Zimbabwe’s nation-wide baseline study conducted to solicit communities’ perceptions of what constitutes healing, peace and reconciliation. The baseline study establishes options for the NPRC progress indicators design and processes upon which the Commission and Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) will track achievements. |
Survivors Speak on TJ in Zim | Feb 14, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Feb 6, 2019 |
| This report outlines the opinions and expectations of Victims and Survivors on what should be included in a Transitional Justice Framework for Zimbabwe commissioned by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. |
ZPP MMR Dec 2015 | Feb 19, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Dec 31, 2015 |
| The report talks about how supporting the opposition is a costly ordeal and how rights are not only grossly trampled upon, but they are torn up in a thousand little pieces and thrown to the winds in Zimbabwe. |
ZPP November MMR 2017 | Feb 19, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 30, 2017 |
| The Zimbabwe Peace project recorded an increase in Human rights violations to 190 in November 2017.Most Cases of Harassment and Intimidation were linked to the BVR exercise and the Intra-party violence within the ruling part ZANU PF. |
ZPP September MMR 2017 | Feb 19, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Sep 30, 2017 |
| There was an increase of Violations in September from 149 to 178 cases.There were creations of terror networks because of the violations perpetrated by Traditional Leaders. |
ZPP MMR January 2017 | Feb 19, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jan 31, 2017 |
| The month of January recorded many violations which were politically motivated. Most of the reported cases were harassment and intimidation of opposition political activists. Other prominent cases were those of deprivation of state sponsored food aid and inputs for farming. |
Prison Report 2018 | Feb 14, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Oct 18, 2018 |
| The primary objectives of this study were to assess the compliance of selected prisons with international and domestic standards on conditions of detention; to consolidate the fi ndings from the prison monitoring project conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) and its membership; to make recommendations for reforms and propose key priority areas. |
Organised Violence and Torture report: April to June 2018 | Feb 14, 2019 | Elections & violence | Jun 30, 2018 |
| The month of April also witnessed increasing tensions between the government and its employees with the government failing to respond to the concerns of workers in the public sector. This led to another strike by nurses, which compromised the right to health care. The March 2018 strike by doctors was followed by a nurse’s strike on 16th of April. Vice President Chiwenga responded by firing all striking nurses violating section 65 (2) (3) of the Constitution, which recognises the right of all employees to engage in collective bargaining with the exception of the security service. |
THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN ZIMBABWE | Feb 14, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Aug 31, 2016 |
| This study investigates the direct and indirect economic costs of police brutality on victims in Zimbabwe, from events related to the social uprising between July and August 2016. Establishing the economic costs of police brutality provides the basis for determining requisite compensation for victims’ loss of earnings; medical and hospitalization expenses; funeral expenses and for the dependants’ loss of maintenance. |
Trauma and Mental Health in Zimbabwe | Feb 18, 2019 | Gender | Nov 30, 2011 |
| This paper falls into three sections.The first section provides a brief overview of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe, The second section ―Developing a response: learning from experience elsewhere, presents in brief the shifts in thinking in this field. |
GALZ Report 2016 final | Feb 18, 2019 | Gender | Dec 31, 2016 |
| The assessment focused on documenting the nature and extent of the state sanctioned and unsanctioned raids on GALZ. The assessment brings out the opaqueness of the raids, which demonstrates the precarious environment that GALZ operates in. |
ZLHR 2014 Annual Report | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 31, 2014 |
| In 2014, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) continued to shape the human rights and legal discourse of the country, relying in large part on its core interventions and expertise, which have stood the test of time, whilst drawing on the potential of the new Constitution, which had come into effect in May 2013. |
Is Zimbabwe Ready for Reconciliation A snap Survey Report | Mar 4, 2019 | Memorialization | Jun 30, 2016 |
| A snap survey in March 2016 to establish the level of knowledge among the Zimbabwean populace regarding the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) as the government designs enabling legislation that operationalizes the commission. |
Epworth and Budiriro Report on Police Brutality | Mar 6, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Dec 31, 2016 |
| This report contains the preliminary findings of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), pursuant to an ongoing investigation undertaken into complaints alleging violations of human rights, in particular the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by COMPLAINANT A AND OTHERS in Epworth and Budiriro, in the Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe. |
The Extent of Political Violence in Zimbabwe
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jul 13, 2001 |
| Organised violence and torture are integral features of Zimbabwean political life, and have been since the early 1960s.This paper discusses the current violence in Zimbabwe, and outlines the major features of this violence in the context of violence in Zimbabwe generally. |
“At the boiling point of the pain”.
Report of a pilot study examining the efficacy of psychotherapy for torture survivors.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Justice & accountability | May 31, 2002 |
| This study has been influenced by our reading of similar literatures in relation to the psychological and social effects of the trauma resulting from organised violence and torture. While we will not be reviewing that literature in depth in this report, it does seem important to note that there is a large body of literature relating both to similar experiences elsewhere in the world and also within the specifically Zimbabwean context. |
Epidemic violence and the community: A Zimbabwean case study.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 30, 1998 |
| This paper deals with the problem of epidemic violence and its consequences, most notably with the problem of torture, which is a common consequence of epidemic violence. It is located in that most violent of continents, Africa, and in Zimbabwe in particular. |
THE CASE OF HENRY DOWA: THE UNITED NATIONS & ZIMBABWE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT | Apr 3, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jan 30, 2004 |
| In May 2003 REDRESS learned that an allegedly notorious Zimbabwean police torturer, Henry Dowa, was in Kosovo. Sources inside and outside of Zimbabwe confirmed that there were numerous serious allegations of torture linked to him, and further investigations revealed that Dowa was part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) civilian police force (CIVPOL). |
Memory and Community Healing | Feb 14, 2019 | Memorialization | Nov 22, 2018 |
| The report is about the importance of Memory and objectives and outcomes of Community healing. |
DAMN LIES? GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING APRIL 2008 | Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 2008 |
| The Human Rights Forum is issued this brief report, to compliment the reports already issued, adding to the calls for strong international action to be taken in order to ensure the integrity of the coming poll, and to call for immediate steps to be taken to protect the rights of ordinary Zimbabwe citizens to chose their leaders without coercion, and in a climate in which their basic freedoms are respected, enforced, and protected under the Constitution. |
Only bruises on the soles of their feet:
Falanga in Zimbabwe.
| Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jan 31, 2009 |
| Falanga is unequivocally a form of torture and constitutes a serious criminal assault under Zimbabwean law. This form of torture has become particularly prevalent in the past five years. Although falanga has been reported in previous decades, it now appears to be very widespread indeed, and almost routine, both inside and outside of places of detention. |
2018 NTJWG Symposium Summary Report | Feb 14, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 23, 2018 |
| From 21 to 23 November 2018, over 118 delegates converged in Bulawayo for the 2018 Transitional Justice Policy Symposium which was jointly convened by the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). The theme of the symposium was, ‘Never Again: Setting the Transitional Justice Agenda for Zimbabwe.’ |
Organised Violence and Torture in Zimbabwe: Harare and Copenhagen, 6 June 2000 | Apr 3, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 6, 2000 |
| The current report is based on information compiled from both a wide range of sources and researched locally by the IRCT delegation. The IRCT delegation visited Zimbabwe from 29 May to 6 June 2000. The delegation comprised Maria Piniou- Kalli, MD, IRCT President and specialist dermatologist, Inge Genefke, MD.DMSc hc, IRCT Secretary-General and specialist neurologist, and Soraya Usmani Martinez, IRCT Project Coordinator for Sub Saharan Africa. |
ZPP August MMR 2018 | Feb 19, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Aug 31, 2018 |
| Picking up the pieces in the aftermath of the elections |
Transitional Justice Policy Symposium Report 2018 | Apr 4, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 23, 2018 |
| This report captures all the proceedings of the symposium, speeches, expert exchanges and outcomes. With QR codes scattered across the report, the reader is invited to join the dialogue, to watch the videos of the presentations and capture the full emotion of the 2018 symposium. |
Summary Report Day 1 | Feb 14, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 21, 2018 |
| The conference commenced with welcome remarks from Reverend Dr Ray Motsi (the NTJWG Thematic Leader on Memorialisation). There where also remarks from Paul Themba Nyathi, the NTJWG Deputy Chairperson standing in for the working group’s Chairperson, Aleck Muchadehama as well as a speech from Nomfundo Mogapi the Executice Director of CSVR and last but not least, remarks by the Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Retired Justice Selo Nare. |
LITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AFRICA | Apr 3, 2019 | Gender | Sep 30, 2012 |
| Sexual violence is the most pervasive form of violence in many of the conflict-ridden countries in Africa and continues to remain so, through various post-conflict stages even after the conflict has ended. Violence, particularly of a sexual nature and against women, that was characteristic of a prolonged conflict, comes to be accepted as the norm and part of the culture more so than it was prior to the conflict. |
Epidemic violence and the community | Mar 5, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Dec 31, 1998 |
| This paper deals with the problem of epidemic violence and its consequences, most notably with the problem of torture, which is a common consequence of epidemic violence. It is located in that most violent of continents, Africa, and in Zimbabwe in particular. |
Shutdown Atrocities Report 6 February 2019 | Feb 14, 2019 | Extra-judicial Killings | Feb 6, 2019 |
| The violations of human rights that started as the state’s response to mass protests on 14 January, 2019 following the increase in fuel prices immediately took a widespread systematic character, the dominant actors being the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and suspected ZANU-PF militia. The systematic and sustained nature of the violations raises fear that this is becoming a case of crimes against humanity. |
Symposium Report Day 2 | Feb 14, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 22, 2018 |
| Day 2 of the NTJWG Conference being in Bulawayo began with participants visiting different historical sites and heritage centres which depict Zimbabwe’s conflict history and community healing practices. Visited places include; the Entumbane Reintegration Camps sites, the Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church and Amagugu International Heritage Centre. |